STFU

Even if he was fit I wouldn't want him playing given the circumstances.

Is it not the case that a player is free to speak to other clubs, and can sign a pre contract, in the last few months of their current contract?

Harsh!

We should be fine so long as we don't accidentally send out the men's team.

Who's paying for this magical overhaul that's going to save our season and set us on the path to glory in 2024-25?

Started your new year drinking early? Or maybe you just forgot to add the additional need for an entirety new bench of players that don't weaken the team when brought on?

Just to keep @Moogthurso happy, I'd not be upset if we offloaded the CEO to free up money for players.

Ferguson's first job was to stabilise the team. He did that by finding a starting 11 and formation that was working and getting results. Dodds hadn't managed that. That has been disrupted due to some of that starting 11 being unavailable for various reasons, and not having sufficient quality on the bench. We'd already seen frailty with subs at the end if games. We might have hoped to have got to January without these challenges, but not to be. Unfortunately, I don't think the January window will bring the changes we'd like to see because we don't have money to be paying players off and bringing new ones in. The fact we're taking free agents on trial in December indicates the market we might be able to shop in. Ferguson has, to my knowledge, never talked about promotion play offs and has been fairly clear that he was tasked with survival. The best we can hope for is that some of these fringe players improve with the game time they're getting and we cobble together enough to be above the relegation spots at the end of the season. Given how things were looking a few weeks ago, I'd be content with that.

From watching the highlights, on another day it could have been a game with a dozen or more goals.

I don't use it, but the Travel Club seems to be about the only thing ICTFC related that's been run reliably the last few years

Don't tell Bobby Mann!!

I imagine they accepted it, maybe even requested it, just so they could post it online. Such is the screwed up world we live in, where likes and shares on social media are so highly coveted.

Apparently we're now offering cremation services at the stadium. https://x.com/FootyScran/status/1732099539027284396?s=20

Even when on the ground, the length of grass and/or pressure of the ball against it would come in to play. Referees are no better/worse today than they were before TV, they're just under infinitely more scrutiny post match. Bring back the days before TV when things like this would be argued out in the pub based on where Bob or Jimmy were sitting in relation to the goal line. Everyone would then agree to disagree and we wouldn't have pointless postmortems running on indefinitely based on dodgy video screen grabs that could have been from milliseconds before or after an incident and tell us nothing.

Seems like a lot of trouble to go to for a minor misdemeanor. Surprised we've not had the "Provincial club from the North being victimised because we're an easy target" statement from our club CEO yet!

We have an available squad which lacks any quality in depth at the moment, and that limits our options when it comes time for subs or backfilling for unavailable players. This won't be the last time we lose a game in this manner as a result of that, but hopefully Ferguson can find a way to improve the situation when the January window comes around. Unfortunately, the way we're run off the pitch is likely to severely hinder the available finances for that, so it will likely need a great deal of creativity and wheeling n dealing.

There's good argument for both approaches. The one used is higher risk, but gave better return in terms of game time and a proper look at fringe players. The cost was entertainment value. I'm sure Ferguson expected a bit more from the starting lineup and didn't intend to be relying on subs to win it, but he'll now have a better understanding of what he's working with.

With Welsh unlikely to have been on the park the whole game (Ferguson said post match he got longer than intended) and needing to focus on his own return, and Billy not starting, then I don't think there's anything to read into it.

Made a late decision to go after being offered a comp, and was regretting it at half time and almost decided to head home to the warmth. Sheridan is awful. Every move he made was towards our man with the ball, restricting options. Can't recall a single time he ran into space, and if the ball wasn't to his feet he wouldn't move/chase it. Welsh looked like he'd never played before and Delaney was a passenger. Until the subs came on it looked like we were also a poor Lowland League team with nothing to play for. We'd get to the final third, then pass it back, all the way to the keeper half the time. A better team would have taken us apart in the first half, but Cowdenbeath were as toothless as we were Thankfully we had a strong bench and the first 3 subs changed the tempo and the game. Billy's goal was an absolute corker.and I hope we're working on getting Wotherspoon tied down a little longer. Hopefully the game time will have helped the fringe players, and those coming back from injury, but man was it painful to watch. Most important thing is, we're in the hat for the next round. Onwards and upwards.

Confident we can do the business, but a little nervous by mention of 4 or 5 changes, especially involving players who haven't been playing, and unfortunately Max Anderson is cup tied, so not available for selection. Still might stick a tenner on a win by 2 or more.

That cover it?

I hear there's a stadium sized plot available up at Fairways where they were previously hoping for some Battery Storage

I think underpinning the financial future of the club on it might lean things in favour of my interpretation, but you carry on splitting hairs

You're reading that wrong. It's not that the green port will deliver delayed benefit. It will NEVER deliver any benefit for the club.

I know you are just trying to defend the club, and that's admiral to a point, but I'm afraid you are wrong/misinformed on much of what you have said on this thread. Read it back in full and you'll see that there's information and links on things like business and resident objections to the Battery Storage unit, as well as independent consultations that state the application doesn't meet the criteria and the club not taking advantage of pre application advice which would have highlighted issues and allowed them to consider them before proceeding. The concert company stuff is covered above. The CEO told us the green port was going to be huge for the club, but now the chairman is saying he can see no way it will benefit us at all. This is not a case of giving a pat on the back and saying they tried their best, everything above is riddled with evidence of mismanagement and incompetence.